2. So Nathan said to David, “Do all that is in your heart, for God is with you.”
3. But it happened on that same night that the word of the Lord came to Nathan, saying,
4. Go and tell David My servant: Thus says the Lord: You will not build a house for Me to dwell in,
5. for I have not dwelt in a house since the day when I brought Israel up even until this day, but I have gone from tent to tent and from tabernacle to tabernacle.
6. Wherever I have gone in all Israel, have I ever spoken a word to the any of the judges of Israel that I commanded to shepherd My people, saying, Why have you not built Me a house of cedar?
7. And now say this to My servant David: Thus says the Lord of Hosts: I took you from the pasture, from following after the flock, to be ruler over My people Israel,